The authors take a new look at the relationship between regime type and deadly militarized conflict among pairs of states (dyads) in the international system. With the goal of describing the general functional form, they evaluate three perspectives: democratic peace, regime similarity and regime...

Since their introduction Kernel Methods have proven their superior performance in many different application areas. Recently these algorithms have also been employed for different tasks in the area of finance. In this contribution we present an introduction to the methodology and give an...